Growth or Fixed Mindset

You’re in charge of your mind. You can help it grow by using it in the right way." —Carol Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

As we are in the month of submitting our drafts I feel I have researched and written a lot on my inquiry but I cant help but feel anxious about finishing off sections I've left and then submitting it all.
I have tried to dedicate 2-3 days a week on my work which is hard with work commitments and somedays I don't feel focused at all. Doing a workout or stretch in the mornings seem to help activate my brain before sitting in front of my laptop for hours. An interesting piece a found on the difference between a growth and fixed mindset by Carol Dweck who I previously researched, made me wonder if we are aware what mindset we have and the effect it has on us. I also thought about how each mindset affected the participants answers when I conducted my interviews a few weeks back.

I then came across a quiz of 10 questions that tells you if you have a growth or fixed mindset, which I was really interested in finding out,

http://www.londonacademyofit.co.uk/learning-blog/learning/interactive-quiz-fixed-vs-growth-mindset/

Skype Session 20/03/18 5pm

This evening we had a Skype session where there were 9 of us all from different modules, this was I think the largest group Skype I had attended so was really interesting to get so many point of views. We began as we usually do introducing and stating where we are at in the module and what we want to talk about in the session. There was some confusion for module 3's about dates of hand in's ect which was cleared up by the academic calendar on uni hub if anyone is also stuck finding them.

Important points I wanted to address were, if I am on the right track and how much Id done in comparison to other m3's, finding out if any other member of the group had conducted their interviews or tried to organise one with an organisation and how they went about it.

I found everyone had more or less started their literature review in some way, including their findings from the methods they had started using, I have completed my interviews with my colleagues at my workplace which I found easy to organise but I'm having trouble getting a response arts organisations to schedule an interview. Emma and Jess were really helpful and suggested that instead of trying to arrange an interview, I send over the interview questions, similar to my survey and see if they respond that way. I think this is my next moving point with gaining a more professional view to add to my research. Helen also suggested I find someone who is linked with an arts organisation which is something I will also look into.

Another important point that came up was about m1, and how effective the reflective journal is at such an early stage. I remember feeling like I was almost wasting time writing a diary regularly on my practice but we discussed the importance the journal brings at a later date, as you can refer back to it as a piece of evidence.

Adesola mentioned a really good point that "the process has value'', I think going through mounds of information and getting confused is a part of the process, my questions and opinion have changed so many times throughout the modules and have left me feeling frustrated but it all a part of your inquiry. Also making sure that everything relates back to your practice is something I think when re reading my work to help keep me on track, if its important to me then I know I'm working towards something meaningful to my practice.

Im so glad I was able to attend the session as I'm terrible with missing previous ones.

If anyone has a minute can you please fill out my survey, Thankyou
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BTRWLNF

Please can you fill out my Survey

If anyone has the time between literature reviews and life, can you fill out my survey please! Thankyou

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/BTRWLNF

Task 7a

Module 3

Task 7a

From reading through M3 handbook you see the module is split into 3 sections and is 100% based on coursework.

The Critical Review

Professional Artefact

Oral Presentation

The image above is a helpful guide to plan out what can be completed at what stages as well as a ghantt chart and diary deadlines. As I have stripped my inquiry plan back I need to gather more relevant evidence. With Stage 2 including a Literature review I am taking on notes that Helen gave on our Skype call to gather new information on professional behaviour. Below are the list of arts based websites I have began contacting and gathering articles from,

To help with the structure of my review I will refer to Hart 1998, list the purpose of what to include in a literature review,

1 distinguishing what has been done from what needs to be

done;

2 discovering important variables relevant to the topic;

3 synthesizing and gaining a new perspective;

4 identifying relationships between ideas and practice;

5 establishing the context of the topic or problem;

6 rationalizing the significance of the problem;

7 enhancing and acquiring the subject vocabulary;

8 understanding the structure of the subject;

9 relating ideas and theory to applications;

10 identifying the main methodologies and research

techniques that have been used;

11 placing the research in a historical context to show

familiarity with state-of-the-art developments (1998, p. 27).

Reading University helped me avoid making mistakes on plagiarism by their advice on guided videos bibliography and referencing,

http://www.reading.ac.uk/internal/studyadvice/StudyResources/Essays/stastartinglitreview.aspx

Module 3 Skype call with Helen

Skype call with Helen 26/02/18

After receiving my feedback I felt my inquiry was swimming around me in different directions. My ideas were scattered under the topic of Behaviour and my linking ideas didn’t have enough literature to support them. I arranged a Skype call with Helen to review my plan.

I think the most important part of the inquiry is identifying if it really relates to your current practice, Helen and myself discussed my work and what to eliminate. I have decided to strip back my interviews to just my work place and to only include adults, no children. I want to come away from how involved child behaviour is and centre my thoughts more from a practitioner’s side.

Helen suggested looking more into arts literature and professional ethics through Equity and Arts council. Here I can find further evidence and possibly an interview on performers rights.

Reading through Module 3 handbook is starting to make more sense than previous because I am planning in advance how my inquiry will go. Adding more relevant literature and findings with help this process and give body to my plan.

Task 6C

Task 6C

Award Specialism Title

Over the course of my study I have been focusing in on my role as dance captain at my current workplace, This year I have faced experiences that have challenged me into developing a sense of awareness within my work that has led me to exploring the term, Behaviour. This idea generated from reflecting on my practice and over time I have become interested in what triggers people’s personalities from a young age, to behaviour as an adult in a workplace. I wanted the title of my plan to be based around people’s perception on behaviour and came up with ‘The Notion of Behaviour’.

Task 6B

Task 6B:

The use of different Tools within my Inquiry

In Task 6A I decided on using Interview style questions when gaining views from my SIG’s group on behaviour. I felt this was the most efficient way to gain personal responses and I’m happy with the outcome however, when sending a group the same questions I have to wonder whether it would have been more beneficial to send the questions by direct message, as there would be no influence from other member of the group when answering. Interviewing questions to a group was easier for me to evaluate as the answers were all on one page.

As mentioned in Task 6A my initial idea was to create a survey for my SIG’s. Keeping the content simple and to the point the users would have an easy to use application where they would feel more relaxed when answering the 4 questions. I started creating a template but decided against if after a few attempts as I would have to apply some optional answers for my SIG’s to choose from which defeats the point of gaining a personal response, that’s when I moved onto interview style questions. I like the idea of the survey and would be interested in trying out other students but felt it didn’t relate to my questions.

Gathering in a focus group is another tool I’ve thought of using when questioning my work colleagues. It’s something I’ve done previously within my practice and thought it worked well gathering as a team however, there are issues within this. Depending on the personalities amongst the group there can be a leader presents that steers the group opinion to make it not ethical.  This again has lead me back to the tool of interviewing colleagues individually for more reliable data.

Plot observation, another tool I would like to explore is beneficial as it allows you to look deep into a situation, this can be discussed within a focus group or individually. This is related to a task I would like to try out after questioning my work colleagues. I’ve spoken before in my literature review about “Creative Confidence” and the Creative Challenge #4 on observing human behaviour and the process in doing so. Again this depends on if its being done in a group or individually to gain different ethical issues.

When looking at documents it is important to gain the correct information beforehand, knowing if they are ethically right and come from a reliable source. Many times throughout my practice I gain information from the Internet or from books, as it is easily accessible but remembering to be mindful that the information is valuable to my question/point. In Module 1 I spoke a lot about the advantages and disadvantages on the use of Web 2.0.